xxx, 191 pages : 29 cm

"The aim of this study is easy to define: to provide a systematic survey of all the bird life depicted by the ancient Egyptians in art and hieroglyphic writing, to sketch the birds' role in secular and religious spheres, and to attempt to compare their present-day distribution range with that in the time of the Pharaohs, based on the most current Egyptological and ornithological knowledge"--Page xii

Includes bibliographical references (pages xiv-xxix) and index

Ostrich -- Diver -- Cormorant -- Darter -- White or pink-backed pelican -- Dalmatian pelican -- Heron -- Egret -- Night heron -- Little bittern/bittern -- Black stork -- Saddlebill stork -- Whale-headed stork -- Glossy ibis -- Sacred ibis -- Hermit ibis -- European spoonbill -- Greater flamingo -- Black kite -- Egyptian vulture -- Griffon vulture -- Lappet-faced vulture -- Long-legged buzzard -- Lesser kestrel/kestrel -- "Horus falcon" -- Mute swan -- Whooper or Bewick's swan -- Greylag goose -- White-fronted goose -- Bean goose -- Red-breasted goose -- Egyptian goose -- Ruddy shelduck -- Common shelduck -- Green-winged teal -- European wigeon -- Pintail -- Tufted duck -- Common quail -- Red junglefowl -- Helmeted guineafowl -- Common crane -- Demoiselle crane -- Purple gallinule -- European coot -- Painted snipe -- Ringed plover or little ringed plover -- Lapwing -- Spur-winged plover -- Sandpiper -- Avocet -- Pin-tailed sandgrouse -- Rock pigeon -- Turtle dove -- Great spotted cuckoo -- Barn owl -- "Eared" owl -- Roller -- Kingfisher -- Pied kingfisher -- Bee-eater -- Hoopoe -- Crag martin or pale crag martin -- Swallow -- House martin -- White/pied wagtail -- Red-backed shrike -- Masked shrike -- Golden oriole -- Crow -- Redstart -- House sparrow -- Bat -- Appendix I. The mummified birds -- Appendix II. A preliminary checklist to the Birds of Egypt by Steven M. Goodman

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